The weather supplies many metaphors for our changeable minds. Moods can brighten and darken, dispositions can be sunny, futures can be under a cloud and relationships can be stormy. Like the weather, our…

Being blindly and unrelentingly positive can be a burden to disease sufferers.
Image from shutterstock.comApril 29, 2013

Of all the cultural beliefs about health and illness that saturate the developed world, there is none so pervasive and deeply held as the idea that you can “battle” an illness by sheer force of will. We…

Positive psychology is not and has never been a “positive thinking” movement.
Łukasz StrachanowskiOctober 5, 2012

Perhaps because the word positive automatically brings to mind the insufferable yellow smiley face, the field of positive psychology is struggling to get the respect that it deserves. Two articles in the…